Thursday, July 3, 2014

Visual inspirations for spanking stories: legend of the bound fairy

(See here for an explanation of this series and here for an index to it.)
Legend relates that from time to time a fairy is cast out from the court of Queen Titania, because she has been found to have consorted with a man. Bound with rope, still wearing her diaphanous fairy garments of gossamer lace, they leave her upon the grass, deep in a magical sleep.

When a man comes, the legend says, he may take the exiled fairy for his own if he knows how, but the way of such taking is not easy, for fairies are free, rebellious spirits, and their wildness must be tamed. The man who wishes to have one for his own must cherish her, but he must also waste no time in asserting his authority.

The legend recommends to such a brave man that as soon as he finds his pretty fairy, he must put her across his knee, and spank her shapely bottom soundly, until she admits the crime that led to her exile from Titania's court. Only then should he arrange her there on the grass for his enjoyment, and uncover himself before her, and ravish her while she cries out her submission under him. For if the man does not spank the fairy first, before he ravishes her, the legend says, she will laugh, and steal his manhood away, and carry it back to Titania's court as the price of her return from exile.

Oh, I made it up, of course! There's not enough spanking in fairy-tales, I say. Children are always getting switched, I suppose, but the Grimm brothers apparently didn't know you had to be 18 for that to happen. My fairies are all at least 1800.

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Emily Tilton, whose books have hit number one on Amazon in four different erotica categories, wishes she could live out her fantasies of submission the way her characters do.

Emily's erotica is a narrative version of her nearly lifelong quest to reconcile her submissive erotic orientation with her ethics. She writes erotica, not erotic romance: her books are about sex, because writing about sex helps her understand that fundamental part of her life better. She hopes maybe it does the same for her readers.

Over the many years since Emily became aware of her sometimes unbearable craving for ravishment, spanking, and above all anal domination, she has tried to come to terms with that craving in more ways than she can count. The first of the ways was by reading, voraciously, every piece of BDSM erotica she could find.

Eventually, she read Story of O. As is reflected throughout her work, it changed her life, though the change has been gradual, and continues to this day. The idea that other women might share the lusts she has by turns been ashamed of and defiantly proud of, that a woman like the real Pauline Réage might write so beautifully of those lusts, and work them out so thoroughly and even pitilessly on a character, put Réage's famous pencil in her right hand. Or, to put it in the terms of EXPLORATIONS, which she considers her magnum opus, it put her left hand on the keyboard of her laptop and her right hand in her lap, if you know what she means. Emily started to write spanking stories.